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Jean-Paul Sartre

By Ortiz Leonardo

  • It begins

    It begins
    Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris, France in 1905.

  • Early Life

    Early Life
    Sartre's father died when he was young, and had to live with his maternal grandfather, Carl Schweitzer. (Seen in the picture.)

  • WW1

    WW1
    This was happening during Sartre's early life

  • Graduation

    Graduation
    Sartre was graduating from La Rochelle's lycee and going to École Normale Supérieure, a prestigious school. (Lycee means a secondary school in France that the government funds)

  • First Job

    First Job
    Sartre was a Professor of Philosophy at Le Harve. (A port city)

  • First Novel

    First Novel
    He wrote the book Imagination: A Psychological Critique during his teaching years.

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    During this time the Great Depression was happening

  • WW2

    WW2
    After Sartre had taught for almost eight years, he was drafted into WW2 and survived.

  • First Play

    First Play
    Sartre's first play was "Les Mouches" or "The Flies," about the Electra myth.

  • Philosophy Structured Into Others

    Philosophy Structured Into Others
    His book “L’Etre et le néant,” or “Being And Nothingness,” was the book that structured his philosophy into others.

  • He's Racist?!

    After he publicized "Being and Nothingness," he was believed to be racist. And once everyone found out he was in with Russia during the Hungarian Revolution people believed he was a racist communist and politician.

  • A Big Hit

    A Big Hit
    Sartre published a 4 volume series named "Les Chemins de la liberté" or "The Paths Of Freedom."

  • Interest to Politics

    Interest to Politics
    After WW2, Sartre took an active interest in French political movements, and his leanings to the left became more pronounced.

  • Another Boom

    Another Boom
    Sartre was a Philosopher, and one of his famous books, "Qu'est-ce que la littérature?" or "What is Literature?", was an instant "BOOM" of success.

  • Korean war

    Korean war
    During this time the Korean War was happening

  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement
    During this time, the Civil Rights Movement happened.

  • Places visited

    Places visited
    1954, he visited the Soviet Union, Scandinavia, Africa, the United States, and Cuba.

  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution
    This happened during Sartre's life, and he actively took part as a politician in the Soviet Union.

  • Les Temps Modernes

    Les Temps Modernes
    Sartre wrote "Le Fantôme de Staline" or "The Ghost of Sta line" in the "Les Temps Modernes" or "The Modern Times" after the Soviet Union failed to "communize" Hungary.

  • Rejected?!

    Rejected?!
    Sartre Rejected the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Death

    Death
    Sartre died at the age of 74 from pulmonary edema.

  • Resources

    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre
    https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1964/sartre/biographical/
    https://thetablet.org/learning-from-the-atheist-philosopher-jean-paul-sartre/
    https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/jean-paul-sartre